597012 – Encode + in mailing list subscription URI

Bug 597012 - Encode + in mailing list subscription URI

Summary: Encode + in mailing list subscription URI

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Websites
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Gentoo Website (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Website Team

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Reported:	2016-10-13 06:59 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2016-10-14 11:45 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2016-10-13 06:59:40 UTC

https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/

The 'subscribe' URLs are alike:

  gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org

However, '+' stands for space in urlencode, so (some?) mail clients get a space there instead. We should probably use %2B instead.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2016-10-13 07:00:26 UTC

Sorry, I meant:

  mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org

(and it would be changed to:

  mailto:gentoo-user%2Bsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org

)

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2016-10-14 11:45:51 UTC

> Summary: Mailing list subscription URL malformed

Malformed, no. RFC 6068 makes it optional: "'+' characters MAY be encoded as %2B."

I've done it for the few list links where it didn't take a lot of effort. I won't go to great lengths to set this encoding domain wide though.